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Showcase

Browse through our photo galleries, where you will find a wide variety of straw bale construction visuals.

Privacy Walls

Join us as we raise straw bale privacy walls and shape them into gorgeous structures and then tour the finished product.

Gazebo Structures

Perhaps you are more interested our gazebo structures, where you can find more of the same.

Retrofitting Existing Homes

For those interested in retrofitting old homes or trailers to give warmth and beauty to such structure, we demonstrate how the process works.

Retrofitting and Expanding an Older Home

Here's another project where we retrofit and expand an older home. When we're done, you won't believe it's the same house.

New Home Construction

Accompany us as we sweat over building a straw bale house. You’ll be able to take an inside-and-out look at various houses through all stages of the building process.

Building a New House on a Limited Budget

We met a delightful young family who were dying to move out of their energy-inefficient condo and into a straw bale structure, yet were unsure how to accomplish that with their limited budget. So ... we worked hard to make their dream a reality.

New Mexico's First Permitted 'Loadbearing' Structure

Although New Mexico's building code does not permit loadbearing straw bale structures, Paja Construction has been able to obtain several permits for such houses on a case-by-case basis. This home was built in Mountainair New Mexico in 2008